‘Sorted Books’ [Artist Nina Katchadourian’s playfully arranged book spine sentences], is many things at the same time: a series of sculptures or photographs, or site-specific installations; a collection of short stories, or poems, or jokes; a work in which the ‘found object’ is subject alike to chance and the most painstaking choices; a delicate conceptual game with the horizontal and the vertical. But it is first of all an act of reading. We have to picture the artist at large between the bookshelves, scanning the spines for likely, or unlikely, meetings among their titles.
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What Game of Thrones goodies did you get this holiday season? My family got me the Lands of Ice and Fire maps, a Stark throw blanket and a House Stark mug. -Fury
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OH MY GOD
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change the wall color and I’m in love
There should be drawers or something underneath, too. But very cool.
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The Old Library, Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Hague, Netherlands
The official reporters of the Parliamentary Reporting Office record the proceedings and debates in parliament verbatim. Volumes of these verbatim reports (Handelingen) are stored in this library. When it was built at the end of the 19th century, there was no electricity—combustible substances, such as candles and gas lamps, had to be kept away from the more than 100,000 volumes. The roof was constructed as a leaded glass dome to allow as much light in as possible.
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